Hong Kong 2012 - Chaper 4: Day 3 @ SOHO and The Peak

Day 3 in Hong Kong, everyone woke up bright and early to go for breakfast *scratch that* everyone woke up early except me O.o... We'd planned to meet in the lobby at 8am to head over to Central Hong Kong to have eggtarts for breakfast. I have no idea why but I actually forgot to set my alarm and woke up at 8.10am, rushed downstairs right after brushing my teeth and changing so please pardon my my haggard looks in the pics taken that day.. T_T

Doesn't this place look like someplace straight out of a TVB drama? :)

I forgot to adjust the white-balance on my camera that day, but I think this looked quite nice~

First thing we did was to wander around Soho looking for this shop called 泰昌饼家 or Tai Cheong Bakery which apparently sells very yummy eggtarts. Its a tiny shop located at Lyndhurst Terrace which has been open since 1954, according to the date emblazoned on the floor.

Me footing the bill for the first round of tarts to redeem myself for being late XD
HK$5= S$0.80 for 1 tart~

I miss you eggtarts!!!

My bribe to all of them.. hehehe..

we very spontaneously decided to just simply pop into a shop for breakfast: part 2.. haha..

my very very smooth and tasty fish congee, the bowl was so huge that I couldn't finish T_T what a waste..

literally fishy tasting 油条, I prefer our local ones more...

The difference between all dolled-up and just woke up, hahahha XD
This is where the Central Mid Levels Escalator is located by the way.. I was so happy to come here since I'd just seen the place being featured in the Hong Kong edition of (my current favourite show) Running Man :):):)

We only went up a few levels since its so super long and supposedly will take you 20 minutes to go all the way up, the steepness of the slope is quite scary.. one wrong step and you could find yourself rolling down the hill~

The very aesthetically pleasing former Central Police Station, but it looks a little like a haunted abandoned building if you look closely :S

We walked all the way from Soho to the Central Peak Tram Station to ride the funicular train that brings you up to Victoria Peak, I think we walked quite a distance but it was so cool that we didn't feel tired at all~ I wanna go again in January/February just for the weather.. Aaaaahhh...

Passed the very grand looking Government Office Main Wing

So cute, they have slope registration numbers and tree registration numbers, what next? grass patch registration numbers? :P

Finally reached the intersection leading to the Garden Road Central Peak Tram Station~

The slope was incredibly steep I think the angle was more than 45 degrees, so exciting!!! My only grouse was that it was too hazy/cloudy for us to see the scenery outside properly, and the tram ride ended quite quickly also, but all in all, it was a fun experience and I'm glad we didn't leave it out of out itinerary.. Skipped Madame Tussaud's and the viewing area though, since we wanted to save some money for shopping, heehee.. According to my colleague who went to both, we didn't miss much since it was too hazy to see much from the viewing platform, and we all know what's inside the wax museum already anyways :)

The hazy view from our hiding spot at the back of the Peak Galleria, nothing much to see.. nothing much in terms of shopping as well, although my colleague did get something from the Hard Rock outlet

Proof that I was at The Peak! It was really really cold and we all just ran helter skelter into the mall to hide from the cold after just a few seconds outside.. hahahha.. I guess the people who live there have adapted well to the weather since we saw many people walking their dogs or jogging around in shorts.. @.@



















This has got to be my favourite part of The Peak experience.. So many doggies everywhere!! All very nice doggies too~~~ :D:D:D:D

Oh yeah, we managed to fulfill our dream of meeting some celebrities while in Hong Kong as well.. As luck would have it, just as we were planning to head over to the tram station for our return ride, we spotted a whole mob of photographers flashing away so we quickly rushed over to have a look~ Turns out the fashion brand Moschino Cheap & Chic was having a spring/summer showcase at the Peak Lookout restaurant with real HK stars, whee~~~

Only posting pics of the 2 stars I recognised that day, Jennifer Tse Ting Ting (Nicholas Tse's sis) and Nicky Chow, Nicky Chow is so pretty!! The other people we saw which I found out later were models Amanda Strang and Janice Man.. funny how you can still be starstruck at any age.. even though we didn't really know who was there at first, we still tried our best to peer over the hedge, luckily I was tall enough, but you can still see part of the hedge in all our photos, hahaha.. my colleague who was shorter resorted to squatting down and making a hole in the hedge to see... lol..

Really have to give credit to these celebrity people, even though it was so cold, they had to come out in summery dresses and stand in the cold for interviews, you could practically see them shivering! We left before Ah Sa from Twins arrived, too bad.. but like I said it was cold so we didn't want to keep standing there!! *defensive*

The sky cleared a little on our way down the hill~

On our way back to the hotel from Mongkok station, we saw this very interesting street artist, he was using flour to write, his writing was so neat, I can't even write half as nice with normal pen and paper T_T

Ended up at the mall next to the hotel for lunch. We wanted to have dimsum but all the restaurants were jam-packed so we ended up having roast pork and goose at the food court. The roast goose was super yummy even coming from a food court. Wonder how the ones from those famous stalls taste like then O.o...

After lunch we went back to our rooms to rest a bit before meeting in the lobby at 4pm to go for our open-top bus and cruise down Victoria Harbour for the Symphony of Lights show, stay tuned.. Will post a short clip of the awesome lights show in my next post~